Six Nations in six graphics: What do the stats reveal?

Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies amid record-low fertility rates

Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year.

Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse

Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it.